Removing files with rm using find and xargs
You have an alias set for the rm command to 'rm -i'. Therefore if you invoke the command directly as in
rm file.txtor
rm *.txtthe alias will be expanded. If you will call it with xargs as in
find . -type f -name '*.txt' | xargs rmThe rm is passed as a simple string argument to xargs and is later invoked by xargs without alias substitution of the shell.You alias is probably defined in ~/.bashrc, in case you want to remove it.